I was just wondering if anyone thinks subscribing to Hakin9 is worth it just for one year.. Yes I know about the spamming etc, and recent NMAP trojan article..

Recently I've been spammed with a discount for a yearly subscription which made me think a little..

Currently I would like to change my career path to more security based IT work. Originally I use to create OpenBSD firewalls/mailservers then ended up in infrastructure/SQL consulting for a few years.. so want to do something challenging, so more security based sounds like the right direction..

I would like to learn up more on security related topics so, even access to Hakin9 past articles might be a good way to learn up.

Any thoughts or the recent happenings is enough of a deterrent for a subscription and its better to just dig through the net or pickup a few good books on the subject?

Hakin9 is a joke. They spam people to get them to write articles and they don't even have technical reviewers. Occasionally they get good articles, but many of them are really bad. You can generally find better stuff online.

Some pros recently submitted an article about NMAP that was complete gibberish (on purpose). The acronym for the title was DICKS and nobody noticed.

Don't subscribe to them!!!! Like it was said before they are a joke and just a spam club. I remember when it was a physical mag with CD's and everything and they were really good. Those days are long gone and about 50% of what they publish is crap and out of the other 50% half of it is decent and half of it you can find on free resources. Stay away from them!!!!!

Real places to go:

Security Aegis, Irongeek, Securitytube, and of course google. catonmat is really good for scripting as I found just yesterday while browsing for a sed tutorial for a lesson on Hacking Dojo.

So save your money for something worth reading!!!!!

Last edited by esojzuir on Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:03 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I agree with Esojzuir, it was such a great mag when it was on paper but it’s just rubbish now! From what I have found from reading the free articles they publish most of the info can be found on the web for free…